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by e1ias

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How can I avoid having the boot options screen popup ? I only have Win2000 on my machine and it seems pointless.

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by eminent87

boot options screen in the bios during boot up? can you please explain your situation in more detail?

if it asks your to pick between 2 diff windows 2000 during boot up and gives you about 30 seconds to do so then you can set it so that it'll bypass that and go straight to the main boot. right click on "my computer" and then go to properties. go to the "advanced" tab and choose "startup and recovery." on the top select the OS you want it to boot and uncheck "display a list of operating system for _ seconds." reboot the computer normally and you should be good.

by Former member

Or you can edit the boot.ini file on the c: drive (root) - but don't mess up the line for the active OS!

by e1ias

I for some reason do not have that file in Win2000. However, I do remember it from 95 and that was actually the answer that I was expecting. Call it the geek in me, but editing files as opposed to using the GUI really seems to get the job done :-)

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